OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	202
Positive Affect Dynamics	122
Parsing ADHD With Temperament Traits	103
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	97
Are We in Time? How Predictive Coding and Dynamical Systems Explain Musical Synchrony	74
Historical Psychology	71
Music, Memory, and Imagination	65
How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention	64
What Autism Taught Us About Our Social Nature	62
Cognitive Control in Schizophrenia: Advances in Computational Approaches	52
Traces of Our Past: The Social Representation of the Physical World	50
The Link Between Companion Dogs, Human Fertility Rates, and Social Networks	50
The Virtually Intelligent Negotiator: Building Trust and Maximizing Economic Gain in E-Negotiations	47
Estimating the Time to Do Nothing: Toward Next-Generation Models of Response Inhibition	44
Sidelining Bias: A Situationist Approach to Reduce the Consequences of Bias in Real-World Contexts	44
Well-Being After Psychopathology: A Transformational Research Agenda	43
From Words to Worlds: Twenty-Five Years of Advances in Situation Model Research	36
The Antecedents of Transformer Models	36
Motivated Egalitarianism	35
Institutional Inversion and “Demand-Side” Versus “Supply-Side” Views of Culture	33
A Romantic-Partner Model of Mental Health	33
Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights	32
The New Psychology of Secrecy	28
Acknowledgment	28
Interdependent Minds: Quantifying the Dynamics of Successful Social Interactions	27

The Social Congruency Framework: Mapping Different Types of Social Consumption Experiences	27
Emotional Acculturation: Emotions as a Pathway to Social Integration	27
Parenting by Lying	27
Work Identity and Future Research on Work as a Calling	27
Bayes in the Age of Intelligent Machines	26
Agency Through the We: Group-Based Control Theory	25
The Cascading Development of Visual Attention in Infancy: Learning to Look and Looking to Learn	24
The Neural Basis of Visual Search in Scene Context	24
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	24
Lessons for the Next Pandemic: What Children Taught Us About Navigating New Social Norms During COVID-19	23
Intraindividual Conflicts Reduce the Polarization of Attitudes	22
Emerging Principles of Attention and Information Demand	22
The Promise and Peril of Genetics	21
“Asian” Is a Problematic Category in Research and Practice: Insights From the Bamboo Ceiling	21
Attachment as Prediction: Insights From Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience	21
The PATHS to Purpose: A New Framework Toward Understanding Purpose Development	21
The Communicative Principle of Relevance	20
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: A Functional-Identity Perspective	19
The Development of Communication Across Timescales	19
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	19
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	19
Color-Evasive Cognition: The Unavoidable Impact of Scientific Racism in the Founding of a Field	19
Romania’s Abandoned Children: The Effects of Early Profound Psychosocial Deprivation on the Course of Human Development	19
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	18
Privacy Preferences and the Drive to Disclose	18
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	18
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	18
Blood Pressure and Social Algesia: The Unexpected Relationship Between the Cardiovascular System and Sensitivity to Social Pain	17
Five Misconceptions About Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships	17
Conspiracy Theories: Groups, Ideology, and Status as Three Distinct Bases for Expressions in Society	17
Consequences of Bilingual Language Coactivation for Higher Order Cognition	17
Winner Takes All! What Are Race Models, and Why and How Should Psychologists Use Them?	17
Psychological Science Meets Wearable Cognitive Assistance	17
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	17
Ecospirituality	16
The Privilege of Well-Being in an Increasingly Unequal Society	16
Dimensions of Stereotypes About Groups	15
The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology	15
Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence	15
Intergroup Leadership: The Challenge of Successfully Leading Fractured Groups and Societies	15
Disadvantaged-Group Members’ Experiences of Life Transitions: The Positive Impact of Social Connectedness and Group Memberships	15